The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-09 00:00:00

Cause with his best abilities. He did not agree tvitii the Gentleman who spoke last, on the expediency of his amendment ; declared we had no right to interfere in polemics, or mingle the pursuit of our rigl: dociritie ur discipline of the Church. Ou this occasion, we would assume d piwer, which neither law nor religion gave us. Af .ge of martyrdom, it was now no time to barter away our rights, or abandon our tenets. Ha cut . cleo,artug himself entirely against the duleut, aiikl for the resolution in its original form. Tile question was then put on the amendment, and it was negatived by a large majority. The other Resotutior.s were then passed, and the meeting en tered into sub-captions to defray the incidental ex perices of the Petition. Age, Iv ZA Dublin. Du E---1 Gottenburgb, 2 Waterford THE SU N. SOLEM ‘UIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1809. Yesterday a Mail from Malta and Gibraltar ar rived. It brings intelligence rather 0: an important mune. An Expedition has sailed from Sicily, on ._ ;ler the comrmnd of Getieral OSWALD. It was ge neraliy supposed that this Expedition was destined against the Republic of the Seven Islands, the In habitalits of which had expressed a wish to place thrmselves under the protection of this Country.— According to other accothts, however, General Os had sailed the purpose of taking possession of one of the Grecian Islands. Vie have heard for some time past from different quarters that the Too- LAI neel ready for sea. Some of these Letters seto, .hat it had actually sailed, and that Lord Co:.- r..r.cowoon had chased it for three..days without Zote to bring it to action, but that he had to take refuge under the Hieres Islands. °on, we have reason .to know, has cted thy Toulon fleet to put to ~•rang,einent which his skilj zpi !Lem. We believe, hcv.- pia- ~:~~ a, ai 11)t has not received any account '.ing.i)ut to s:'n. A number of reports Nver6 yesterday circulated in t .c city, v. Lich, though they had no foundation in 1 . ,a, produced some effect upon the Stocks. It is probable, indeed, that they were invented for that purpose. The rumours to which we allude were, glut a negotiation bad' aaually commenced, or was on the point of commencing between Great Britain 'and France ; that Marquis WELLESLEY, instead of re turning twine, was about to set out for Paris. It was also stated that Louis BUONAPUITE had assured the Senate of Floll.u,d, that a general peace might be c:xp.Eted in a few months. It is very probable that Louis may have expressed such a hope, in or.ler to soothe the minds of a people labouring under so ma ny privations; but with respell to the other reports, they are hardly worth coatradiaing. It is cottitdently reported that the POPE has been able to effiga bis escape from .Avignon, where he I.iv,,s held in the most 'humiliating captivity, and has abually arrived in Spain. If such an event has really taken place, it may tend to-animate the Spaniards in the glorious attempt to defend their country against a man who has shewn a mockery of all religion, by pretending to be a Christian, or a Mahometan, as he might best effea a temporary purpose. But we fear that much reliat.*•,-; cannot be placed on the in fluence of the Holy Father, even in Spain, where it would certainly be more operative than in any other country, as the world has seen the indifference with which he has been despoiled of all his territorial power, all his political consequence, and all his per sonal property, even by • the agency of men who profess to look upon him as the infallible Hend'of their Church. It is, however, ridiculous to specu late upon future events, as the history of Europe for some yrars past has baffled all the conjectures of ex perience and wisdom. Whether BUONAPARTE be, as the Moniteur repre rents him to be, in perfect health,we cannot pretend to decide, but that he has been seriously' indisposed there can be little doubt. We have already laid be fore our readers many of the accounts received from the Continent upon this subjea. The following Eioraa of a Letter, though it gives a different ac coun► respeetillg the duration of his illness, email:lls the faa " it is a positive fact that lie (iluonalLirte.) was attacked violently with a collapse, which lasted thirty-six hours, du rieg which tiaie he was in a state of petted stupor. Duroc found him in this situation, and immediately steps were taken to keep his malidy secret. The attachment of the Ge nerals nearest his ;,erson was fully evinced on this occasion, by the measures of precaution they took, incase of his death, to prevent a convulsion. He recovered, however,: before his illness had transpired ; and scarce a symptom 'of indisposi. than appeared in his face." Oh, Tilbuzina! Tilburina, oh ! We have seldom had occasion to notice in a daily Paper so ludicrous an example of tile mock-heroic serio-cowic as appeared in The Times of this Morn ing, on the subjed of the recent Naval Pro motion. That the old Snake in the grass should have his spies to scrutinize with jaundiced eyes into every Department of the Naval , Service, no one can be surprised ; but we confess we were very much astonished these prying Gentlemen should have bestowed so much of their time and labour in swelling up a real mule-hill to the shape of a mountain. That notice had been given of the promotion of Officers who were aCtually dead, we believe, with the writer of the paragraph in ques tion, to be true ; but it is equally true that nei ther the Admiralty, the Navy Board, nor the Trea surer of the 'Navy, could posibly !mow of such an event, unless the friends or the agents of the deceieed should think tit to report their deaths of ficially to one of these Boards. The half-pay to Officers on the half-pay list, is issued halt yearly, on affidavits of the parties being still living ; but it does nut follow, that because an Officer, or his friends, or his agent should fail to demand his . half-pay at the end of half a year, a year, or any number of years, that ,his name should be struck off the list ; the half pay ►s vith held till the proper documents are produced,. and the name remains on the list till the faCt of his death shall be unquestionably ascertained.-- We think it necessary to state this, not for the ine formation of the Writer in question, for be is per fealy %yell informed on these matters, but that his readers may not be misled by his misrepre sentations. In the case which he instances of CHARLES COBB, Esq. we believe the fa& to stand thus : the Ilar-Admiral died in the month of September last ; the last list of Naval Officers is dated the Ist of July; consequently his name stands upon that list ; the next issue of half pay will pro bably be in January, when it is also probable the Agent of the late Rear-Admiral will apply with the proper documents. for the pay. that might be due to him at the time of his death ; tberi will his name be removed from the list. Now, as the late • pro motion was not a promotion of sele6tion, but an aid of grace on the part of Elk NIAJELT, ,an occasion wherein we beliet'e it was 'his O'2S solicitude to spew his gratitude to Divine Providence, by bestowing ails of beneficence 0;1 every description of his Subjeas, from the highest - to the lowest, these ants of beneficence were there fore most properly bestowed on 'those aged and me ritorious Officers, who stood at the head of their re-, sPeetive ranks, many of whom in theiryounger days had been ornaments to the profession to which they belonged. This, we can assure our Readers, was done most scrupulously, without favour or afiedion. It cannot therefore be a matter of the least sur prise, nor indeed of the least importance, if it should have so happened that the Commis sions were signed for persons still on the list, though ataually deceased. We would recommend the Times not thus to endeavour to mislead its Readers, for the sake of gratifying a malevolent spirit, or of holding forth the semblance of its ab horrence of abuses which do not exist : in reprobat_ ing those that do, we shall be always ready to join them. Mr. WIIARTON attended yesterday at the Trea sury, for the first time, as . successor to Mr. Hus- KISSON. We are enabled to state positi►ely that there is no foundation for the assertion of a Morning Paper, that the Government has received Dispatches from Marquis WELLESLEY. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY ar rived at the Queeu's Palace, from Windsor, where he was received by, the Duke of YORK. Soon after two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Pri vate Levee, which was attended by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the /First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Colonial, and War Departments, the First Lord t f the Admiralty, the Pre sident of the Board of Controul, the judge Advocate, the Duke of Montrose, Earl Winchilsea, Lord St. Helen's (in Waiting) ; and Admiral Sir S. Smith. Generals—Gordon (Groom in Waiting), Dyot, and Sir Eyre Come. Colonels—Drinkwater, D'Arcy, Walsh, and Bunbury. Captain Herries, And Mr. Fawkener. The following had the honour of being presented to his MAJETTY Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, upon his promotion. Major-General Dyot, Lieut.-Col. D'Arcy, of the Royal Engineers, Lieut.-Col. Walsh, of the 56th Regiment, De puty. Adjutant-General, Lieut.-General Sir Eyre Cr.ote, Capt. Woisley, of the Sith Regiment, and Capt. Berries, of the ist Regiment of Dragoons, Aides-du-Camp to Lieut. Urn. Sir Eyre Coote, upon their return irom Wal.chercn... Lieut.-Col. Bunbury, upon his being appointed Under Se— cretary of State for the War and Colonial Department. His MAJESTY held a Privy Connell, at which Mr,: Jofist MANNERS SUTTON, the late appointed Judi Advocate, was introduced, and swoon in a Meniber, and t(;ok his seat at the Right Honourable Board . accordingly. .• His MAJESTY also held another Council, at which the itECOLIDgR of LONDON' attended, and made his rei!ort of the convias capitally conviEted at Justice Hall, iu the Old Baiicy, at the September SussionE, w hen, we understand, a man of the name of Bog den, for an unnatural crime, and Sullivan and his companion, for a rape in the neighbourhood of Pop lar, were ordered for execution next Wednesday. The case of Shepherd, for a forgery upon a Stock broker, was not reported. His MAJESTY gave audience to Mr. PERCEVAL, and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers present, Sir DAVID DUNDAS, and Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, who laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of some Courts-Martial. Yesterday her Majesty gave a most splendid fete at Frogrnore, in celebration of the birth-day of her Royal Highness Princess Augusta Sophia. The morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells ; and at one o'clock the Royal Blues and Stafford .Militia fired a feu de joie in Windsor Little Park, which was answered by a discharge of 4 1 guns from the Round, Tower. At half past two o'clock his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived ; and at half past three her Majesty and the ditferent branches of the Family left the Castle, in their carriages, for Froginore, and were escorted by a party of the Royal Blues. The entrance through the gardens into the house had a delightful appearance. The sideboards in the principal dining-rooms were richly ornamented - with gold and. silver, and upwards of eighty covers were laid. At five o'clock her Ma jesty, the branches of the Royal Family present, and the company, sat down to a sumptuous dinner, served up in a most magnificent style. The bands of the Royal Blues and Stafford played during the evening. After dinner her Majesty, and most of the company, r&ired to the drawing-room fronting the lakes, in the gardens. The whole apparatus used on the late happy occasion of the Jubilee was left standing, togerher with, the addition of upwards of two thousand extra lamps. The beautiful temple and temporary bridge, opposite the garden, in front of the house, were most fancifully and brilliantly il luminated. The preparations being nearly the same as on the Jubilee day, it is unnecessary to enter into a detail of them ; but the fire-works ,were more bril liant, and the triumphal cars were much improved, and immediately on their arrival at the bridge, with Britannia preceded by Neptune with his trident and.. a band of music, a rocket was thrown into the temple, by which it was instantaneously set on fire, and at the same moment ascended, as it were from Britannia's car, a large beautiful star, with an elegint medallion of the King, surrounded by circles of variegated lamps, and elevated at such a height above the templeas not to be injured by the flames. On the top of the temple were the figures of Forti tude, Piety, and Virtue pointing to heaven, and the eve of Providence directed on the medallion of the- King. The burning of the tereple presented a noble arid pieluresque scene. At eight o'clock the witok. coocluded, wtten the Queen and company t - .irod to the Castle. Upwards of two hundred of invitation were issued. morning his MAJESEY, Princesses Au- GUSTA SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady ELY, Lord SOMEaVILLE, General SPENCER, and Colonel TAYLOR, took an a rwg it) Windsor Park, and re turned I Q the Ptlace at L“,:tvt!o'cl,ck. The QUEEN and Princess E.Liz,inwrn rode to Fr-gmore, to inspca the preparations for the cele bration of toe Fnnccss AUGUSTA'S birth day, last evening-. On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, the Princess AMELjA, accompanied by her Ruyal Sister, the Princess MARY; the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE, arrived at Windsor from Weymouth, in the Prince of WALES'S travel ling carriage, attended by Lady GEORGINA Mua- RAY and Dr. PorE. The carriages stopped at the Princess of 'WALES'S house in St. Alban's-street, where hcr MAJESTY and the Princesses were in rea diness to receive them. We are extremely sorry to say the Princess AMELIA appeared very unwell and feeble, so much so, that she was carried from the carriage into the house wrapped up in blankets. The QUEEN and the rest of the Royal Family left her Royal Highness a little before Lour o'clock for the Castle. About five o'clock, his MAJESTY Vitiit ed her Royal Highness, and remained with her till past six, when he returned to join her MAJESTY and the Royal Family, at their desert after dinner. The Princess AMELIA, we understand will remain at the house in St. Alban's-street, on account of its being very quiet. A quantity of specie, destined for the payment of the garrison of Walcheren, &c. was ort Monday es corted through Canterbury, by a party of the Life Guards, for embarkation at Deal. QUACK. EXTRAORDINARY.—The following is a copy of a letter, dated Market Raiser - 1, Oat. 2 " Market Raisen has been crowded toy these last ten days, past all belief ; hundreds of people have come from all parts of the country to witness the far-famed skill of 'a quack doator, whose account of himself is, that he was never born, but taken out Of the side of his mother, and that he is the seventh son of a seventh son, for seven generations, and that hii mother was a seventh daughter. Many very genteel people even come to h!m, and posi tively assert that he cures all disorders by his touch ; he licks their sores, breathes into their mouths, &c. &c, makes the blind see, the dumb speak, and the deaf hear. He is such a figure as perhaps you never beheld; he parades the streets accompanied by a fiddle, a fife, a drum, and several men with, ribbons to their hats ; he has a long black beard, walks without his coat, with his waistcoat unbutton ed, and his stockings about his heels ; he takes very little money of his patients, and yet spends a great deal; he gives a dinner or supper every day to the poor ; he has six attendants, to each of whom he gives a guinea a day ; hiS daily expeuces are suppos ed to be about twenty pounds. All the inns here are very much crowded; many people have not been able to see him. He went in a post-chaise and tour, a few days ago, to visit a 'patient out of the town ; when he got to the town end on his return, the horses were taketifrom the chaise, and he was drag- ; g(-:d into the town by men, amidst the huzzas and. acclamations of the mob, ringing of bells, &c. indeed they look upon him as something more than human ; he pretends to much religion. I understand that he Was taken up at Lincoln, and committed tO the Louse of cAleation as a vagrant.", NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, &OV. 7.—Arrived the American br'g Aaeon, THOMAS MASON, Master, from New York, last from Penzance, laden with sugat, coffee, to bacco, logwood, and ivory, bound,to Tonniugen sailed on the 2d Sept. was captured on the 1 tth 05tober, by the French brig privateer Le Charles, be longing to Bourdeaux, from Rochelle, and recaptur ed by his Majesty's ship Christian V.ll. of 74 guns, Captain Sir J. S. Yottxx, on the 50th Oalober, about five miles from 'Ushant. The Aaeon is in a . ye ry leaky state, making two feet water in the hold an hour. Sailed Lion, DREW, for Malta. Arrived the Sir Ililliauz Scott, BALL; and LleSior JAMES, from Teneriffe, laden with wine, bound to this port for orders ; the Betsey, IVIELviLLE ; Hen iietta, ARMSTRONG; and Jane, HArattsort, from Sunderland; Vielory, DAviEs, from Liverpool ; Tamer, -, from the westward ; Duke of Argyle, LovEratiG ; Gratitude, JENKINS ; Redwitlt, MoYsE and Charlotte, LOWTHER, from Swansea ; True Bri. ton, EDWARDS, from Newport ; and 117 M, COATS , from Neath. - S2lied his Maj-?sy's ship Dr: fiance, of 74 guns, to join the squadron off L'Orient. Polt-rs..iouTH, N r. B.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Growler 'from Lisbon, having, under convoy about 40 sail of transports ; Marcurry Felix, F. DA SILVA RAMOS, from -the. Dawns, bound to Rio de Janeiro ; John and Ann, HORSMAN ; Amphion, JOHNSON ;- EOM; DAVISON ; Mary, DUNN, from Sunderland ; P/y, GREGORY, from London ; Hopes BARTLETT ; Brothcocle, THOMPSON, from Gibral tar, bound to London ; Emanuel, \VILKINsON, from Salo, for Ciis port ; Favourite, MITCHELL Pearl, PATTEIISON, from Malaga, bound to Lon don : Betties and Susan, WEIR, from ditto, bound to Hull. FALMOUTH, Nov. 6.—Sailed the Windsor Castle packet, for Barbadoes and Jamaica. SHEERNESS, Nov. B.—Sailed up the river Thames, to be paid off, his Majesty's ship Galgo. Sailed his Majesty's ship Starling, with convoy, to Heligoland. DEAL, Nov. B.—Arrived the, Harlequin armed ship from the Westward, with a convoy. • Came down from the River, and sailed to the Westward, the Amelia, BARREL, for Rio Janeiro. Arrived the Speculator logger from Flushing. VA ou - r Nov: .-- - Sailed Acute, Cerberus, and Monkey on a cruizel. Arrived his Majesty's ships Havoc and Chanticleer, and remain with the Roebuck, Drake, CalyPs° , Pandora, Bruizer, British Fair cutter, and :Eliza' and Sheerness tenders. A statement of the loss of the Cheerful' miter; 'Lieutenant CARPENTER, having by s oune Means got inicicirculation, we are happy in being.able to re lieve the anxiety of the relatives of thos i e on board. The report is totally unfounded. Letters were received frotn her five days ago, which left her srell in the Baltic, under the orders of Sir JAiIIIS SAUMAREZ. INDIA Hoosn.—Yestetday a Court of Diretiors was held, when the under-mentioned Captains were sworn into the Command of their respective Ships, VIZ. Captain j. I. Williamson, Ocean, for St. Helena , Ben coolen, and China ; Cap ta i n Wm. Younghusband, 24.1exan '.• der, for Bombay direct • The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-rtiotrow We understand that a vessel is fitting out, by order of the Directors of the'East India Cotnpany, to con vey the new Judge, Sir FRANCIS MACNAVGIITEZT, and His family, to Madras. This vessel will also take out dispatches and letters. It is expeEted that ,he will be ready to sail abOut ten days hence. We are grieved to state, that the Foxhoun d brig of war, Captain MACKENZIE, may certainly be coo sidered as lost, with all her crew ; no account of her has been received subsequent to the statement given by the ship (hitt, of Liverpool, which Ves sel left her in a dreadful gale, in great distress, on the 30th of August last, -in latitude 4G. longi tude 42. • It is stated in a recent illoniteur, 'that a carnivo rous animal has been'lately committing great ravages in the part of the department of Go; d, on the side of the communes of Villefort and of St. Andre- Capcese. It has already devoured several children. Authentic reports have been wade to the neigh •bouring Magistrates of these accounts. Those who - . have seen it, are not, however, yet agreed upon' the ~species of this terrible animal. Some say it is a huge wolf; others, that it resembles a bear. They have only seen it at a di , ,fance, and their terror prevented them from making accurate observations. A pea sant who saw it, says, that it is as large as an ass, • with brown hair. The Mayor of Saint Andre , Capcese, in a letter of the 14th, states, that, accord tug to the proofs which he had colieaed,- it resem- . bled in shape a large wolf, with the hair on the back all bristled, and of a blackish colour, the tail long and bushy, and the muzzle extremely long In certain communes, it has been ordered, - as a trea sure of Frecaution, not to let children have the care cattle in isolated places. Several hunts have talin4lace to purge th,, country of this animal, has beru tired at by several persons, but hitherto without success. However, the measures !taken encourage a . Lope that it will soon cease to exist.